On May 1, 1691, François Leguat and the first French landed on Rodrigues at the site of the future village, which was founded by French colonists in 1735.
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Newton's Parakeet was first written about by the French Huguenot François Leguat in 1708, and was only mentioned a few times by other writers afterwards.
The bird was first described by François Leguat, a French Huguenot refugee marooned on Rodrigues in 1691, and was named leguati in his honour.